Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

    “But he sent her Good-by,
    And said to be good,
    And wear her red hood,
    And look for skunk tracks
    In the snow with an ax—
    And do everything!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”
    —George III (1738–1820)